StarLogin is an application that combines astrological and astronomical functions and data, and includes some future soul horoscope features.

When StarLogin is launched, you are first asked for a password. If after you don't want to keep it, go to the "Display" menu and uncheck "Password": next time you will run StarLogin, the password will not be asked.

Then, a window shows the "tip of the day" at startup, if the box "Display tip of the day at startup" is checked. The "Next tip" button enables you to read other tips, a new one being displayed by clicking on this button. Each tip gives information on a function or possibility of the application.

Then, on top of the main window, the following one is displayed:

You must click on a button to select the corresponding functionality, or close the windows by clicking on the small "x" upper-right button.

• With "Current chart" you calculate and draw the astrological chart (with the current options such as the coordinates system, for the current default place and the current local time.
• With "Wizard" you can easily calculate any kind of chart for the event you want, thanks to the chart creation wizard.
• With "New event" you open the Events window and can either create a new event, or select an existing one or modify it, before you draw the chart.
• With "Saved chart" you can open a previous saved chart, provided that the corresponding file name is still available in the "File" menu and the file is not deleted or moved.
• With "Saved document" you can open a previous saved document (TXT file) provided that the file name is still available in the "File" menu and the file is not deleted or moved.
• With "Last saved chart" you open the last saved chart, provided that the corresponding file name is still available in the "File" menu and the file is not deleted or moved.
• With "Options" you open the main options window.
• With "Last saved document" you open the last saved document, provided that the corresponding file name is still available in the "File" menu and the file is not deleted or moved.
• With "Online help" you open the help file.

The main window shows:

• A Menu and its submenus

• An initial Tool bar with only four buttons,
• A status bar where there is a message that describes the current function, and the current date and hour.
• A contextual menu that is displayed when you click on the main window with the right button of the mouse. It shows some functions of the menu, such as the options.
• The workspace to display the documents and other forms (results of calculations, data grids and tables).

StarLogin enables to display simultaneously several documents and several star charts, the number being limited only by the available memory on you computer. Most of the opened windows can be minimized by clicking on the little "-" button in the upper-right corner of the window. The documents are displayed on the workspace for documents, in the main window, but other ones (charts, data forms...) are minimized on the Windows 95 task bar.

You can change the appearance of the displayed document windows from the "Window" menu. In this one, you can:

• Display the opened (but non-minimized) documents in cascade, or with horizontal or vertical tile.
• Arrange the icons of the minimized documents, if they were in chaos.
• Minimized all opened windows.
• Display normal all the minimized documents.
• Display normal all the minimized charts.
• Display normal all the minimized data grids.
• Display normal all the minimized grids.
• Display normal all the minimized interpretation documents.
• Display normal all the minimized windows.

StarLogin gives the detailed results for any type of star chart. Almost all the charts, results of calculation and tables (aspects, parts, midpoints…) can be printed. You can save all the displayed results and almost all the types of charts to read them latter. And all the text documents ("*.txt" files or compatible ones) being less than about 200 KB can be read.

Menu and submenus are organized into the following hierarchy:

Tool bar buttons

• The tool bar initially presents the "Event", "Open", "Wizard" and "Quit" buttons, which respectively allow:
• To consult, choose, add, modify or delete astrological or astronomical events in StarLogin database.
• To open a previously saved chart or document.
• To easely create a chart thanks to a wizard.
• To close StarLogin.

It shows nine buttons as soon as an event is selected (with the "Event" button or by clicking on "event" submenu in "File" menu) and the events window is closed. The additional buttons are:

• "Calculation" to calculate the event chart, with selected options,
• "Revolutions" to calculate planets cycles, revolutions and symbolic cycles,
• "Transits" to calculate the event chart transits,
• "Directions" to calculate primary, secondary or symbolic directions,
• "Comparisons" to calculate Combinations or comparisons.

If you don't want to display the tool bar, you just have to uncheck "Tool bar" in the "Display" menu.

Four different toolbars are available, among which are the two following ones with small buttons:

A context help is available for help upon functions:

Press F1 when the mouse cursor is on the window or the submenu function upon which you want help.

If the help exists, it is displayed.

A tool tip text is visible after less than one second when you maintain the cursor on some button, label or text box. It gives a short explanatory text about the function of the corresponding element or about the way to use it.

If you don't want to display the tool tip texts, you just have to uncheck "Tool tip texts" in the "Display" menu. The modifications immediately occur for some windows, but from the next launch of StarLogin for the other ones.

The status bar at the bottom of the main window displays a descriptive message for each functionality used. In addition, the current date and hour are also displayed. The format of the date depends on your current Windows date format setting.

If you don't want to display the status bar, you just have to uncheck "Status bar" in the "Display" menu.

Some StarLogin functions can be run not only from the menu or from the buttons of the tool bar, but also from the keyboard:

The results of calculation (charts calculations, calculations of stars or asteroids position, for example) are the "documents" of StarLogin.

They are displayed in cascade when created. (See Software presentation), with the tables and data grids in the foreground, but the results of charts calculation are hidden by the chart to which they are bound.

In a given document, you can use the "?" button to look for the word you write into the text box. If the word is found, it is displayed highlighted. If not, the following text eppears in the text box: "?........?". Each new time you click on the "?" button the program looks for the next matching word in the document.

You can print the windows of results and the tables (See Printing)

You can save the windows of results under the "*.txt" format.

You can read then latter if you use any text editor (such as Notepad or Wordpad) or any word-processing package, or even in StarLogin. (See To save and to read a chart or a document)

You can filter or sort the data grids (See Data grids)

Most of astrological and astronomical sky charts can be saved for future reading. To save one, click on the icon in the window of the chart and record the corresponding file under a sufficiently explicit name to know what chart it is about (for example "John 2x Saturn Revolution.doz" for the chart of the second return of Saturn after John birth).

To read a saved chart, click on "Open" in the "File" menu, or on the "Open" button of the tool bar, and select the wanted "*.doz" file in the directory where it is stored.

To read a saved document (results of charts calculation or any other saved document of Starlogin or of another application if it is lesser than 200 KB), click on "Open" in the "File" menu, or on the "Open" button of the tool bar, and select the wanted "*.txt" file in the directory where it is stored.

The last eleven saved documents are indicated in the "File" menu. You just have to click on such a file name to open the corresponding document.

When StarLogin is not yet running (but only if you have run it at least one time since its installation or its re-installation), if you double-click on the name of a "*.doz" file, from the Windows 95 explorer, for example, you launch StarLogin and it then automatically displays the chart saved in this file, whatever is the chart type.

When StarLogin is running, you can drag and drop a "DOZ" or a "TXT" file, or even several of them simultaneously selected, to the StarLogin workspace to open this or these files.

Most sky charts and the corresponding results of calculation can be printed by clicking on the icon in the concerned windows.

In addition, in the "data form" about "events" (See: The data forms), the printing button enables you to display a window that shows the list of events in a pre-printed form. You can print it, save it on your hard disk as a Word, Excel, Html or RTF document… or event send it via e-mail, according to the button on which you click. (These buttons show a representative icon: a printer to print, a suitcase to store, and a letter to send e-mail):

You can do the same thing in the "Filters and statistics" window (See: Filters and statistics). Here, the events are sorted (by sign, by ascendant, or even by year, for example).

The printer configuration dialog box of Windows can be called from "Printer configuration" in the "File" menu. Or, if you select the option "Printing after configuration" in the "Display" menu, before each printing, the printer configuration dialog box will be automatically displayed.

Starlogin can call the Windows calculator from "Calculator" in the "Display" menu.

If you want to do additional calculations or verifications compared with the results of StarLogin calculations, the calculator is an appreciable complement.

To calculate a normal astrological chart, you can:

• Select the astrological event the chart of which you want to calculate, or create a new one if it is not yet in the StarLogin database (See: The astrological events if you want to know how you can select or create an event).
• To get the event window, click on "Event" on the tool bar or on "Event" in the "File" menu.
• Choose the "tropical" coordinates and the houses system you want (the more common are "Placidus", "Campanus", "Regiomontanus" and "Koch") (See: Coordinates system choice and Houses system choice)
• Calculate the chart by clicking on the "Calculation" button on the tool bar or on "Chart" in the "Calculation" submenu of "Astrology" menu.

You can also:

• Open the chart calculation "Wizard" from the "File" menu or from the startup dialog box.
• Or uncheck the "Astronomical" check box and then click on the "Calculation" button if the "Events" form is visible.

See also: The event chart.

To calculate an astronomical chart (with local coordinates), you can:

• Select the astronomical event the chart of which you want to calculate, or create a new one if it is not yet in the StarLogin database (See: The astrological events if you want to know how to select or create an event). An astronomical event may be the perihelion crossing of a comet, the conjunction of a planet with the Moon, or the local observation of the sky at a given date, for example.
• To get the event window, click on "Event" on the tool bar or on "Event" in the "File" menu.
• Choose the "local" coordinates system (never mind what is the house system) (See: Coordinates system choice)
• Calculate the chart by clicking on the "Calculate" button of the tool bar or on the "Star chart" submenu of the "Astronomy" menu (in this last case, the local coordinates will be used even if you have selected another coordinates system in the options).

You can also:

• Open the chart calculation "Wizard" from the "File" menu or from the startup dialog box.
• Or check the "Astronomical" check box and then click on the "Calculation" button if the "Events" form is visible.

See also: Star chart.

you can use the "Wizard", calling it from the "File" menu in the main (or workspace) window or from the startup window. Just follow the instructions in the wizard and click on the "Next" button to go to the following step of the chart creation process.